The Church Renewal Podcast
The Church Renewal Podcast
Latest Episodes
Gospel Humility
Most leadership teams don’t fail because they lack information. They fail because we walk into the room needing to be right, needing to be seen, or needing the conversation to go our way. We’re naming that problem straight on: community spiritu...
Asking God Without Manipulating the Answer 🙏
Praying together can either soften a church toward God or become a polished way to avoid Him. Matt and Jeremy dig into a tension we see everywhere in church leadership and congregational life: we ask for discernment, but we come with a preferre...
Can We Really Hear God Together?👂
56 churches a day closing while Jesus still calls the fields “ready for harvest” should make every pastor and church leader stop and ask one question: are we actually listening to Christ? We’re Matt and Jeremy, and we dig into why church declin...
When Jesus Leaves the Building 🚪
Some church decisions feel routine until they quietly become make-or-break: hiring a pastor, reshaping a ministry, closing a beloved program, reallocating resources, or choosing a direction when the “right” path is not obvious. We open season f...
Season 5 Preview 4: It Seemed Good to the Holy Spirit and to Us 🕊️
When you get to the end, you wanna be able to say, just like the Jerusalem Council said, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us." Mm-hmm. That is the hallmark of whether community spiritual discernment happened, that the solution that the...